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Week1
 Time
 Place*
 Speaker
 Title
 Comments, Links,...
Mon, Aug 29
 2:00 pm
 SSR
 All participants
 Organizational Meeting I
 Minutes
Tues, Aug 30
 10:00 am
 Aud
 Dam Thanh Son
 Hall viscosity and electromagnetic response
 Notes
Wed, Aug 31
 3:30 pm
 SSR
 All participants
 Organizational Meeting II
 Minutes, Notes
Thurs, Sept 1
 2:00 pm
 Aud
 Sung-Sik Lee
 Holographic matter: deconfined string at criticality
 Notes
Fri, Sept 2
 12:00 pm
Per Kraus
 Higher spin holography and black holes
 Notes
Week 2
 Time
 Place*
 Speaker
 Title
 Comments, Links,...
Mon, Sep 5


LABOR DAY
 HOLIDAY
Tues, Sep 6
 10:00 am
 Aud
 David Tong
 Aspects of Holographic Fermions
 Notes
Wed, Sep 7
 12:00 pm
 Aud
 Discussion led by
Joe Polchinski
 Renormalization Group and Holography
 Notes
Thurs, Sep 8
 2:00 pm
 Aud
 Hong Liu &
Joe Polchinski
 Fermi Liquids & Holography
 Notes
Fri, Sept 9
 12:00 pm
 Aud
 Max Metlitski
 Fermi Quantum Criticality
from the point of view of Condensed Matter, part I
 Notes
Week 3
 Time
 Place*
 Speaker
 Title
 Comments, Links,...
Tues, Sep 13
 10:00 am
 Aud
 Andy O'Bannon and
Andrei Parnachev
 Aspects of Probe Branes in Holography
 Notes
Wed, Sep 14
 12:00 pm
 Aud
 Discussion led by
N. Iqbal and D. Hofman
 From Black Holes to Electron Stars
 Notes
Thurs, Sep 15
 2:00 pm
 Aud
 Gordon Semenoff
 Graphene and Holographic 3D Fermions
 Notes
Fri, Sep 16
 12:00 pm
 Aud
 Max Metlitski
 Fermi Quantum Criticality, part II
 Notes
Week 4
 Time
 Place*
 Speaker
 Title
 Comments, Links,...
Tues, Sep 20
 10:00 am
 Aud
 Andrei Starinets
 Holographic zero sound at finite temperature
Wed, Sep 21
 12:00 pm
 Aud
 Discussion led by Tarun Grover
and Shinsei Ryu
 Entanglement entropy in condensed
matter and holography
Thurs, Sep 22
 2:00 pm
 Aud
 Jan Zaanen
 Testing AdS/CMT in the laboratory:
the holographic superconductor.
Week 5
 Time
 Place
 Speaker
 Title
 Comments, Links,...
Tues, Sep 27
 10:00 am
 Aud
 Pavel Kovtun
 Parity-breaking hydrodynamics in 2+1 dimensions
Wed, Sep 28
 12:00 pm
 Aud
 Discussion led by Joe Bhaseen
 Exploring non-equilibrium dynamics using AdS/CFT
Thu, Sep 29
 2:00 pm
 Aud
 Subir Sachdev
 Holography and compressible quantum phases
Fri, Sep 30
 10:00 am
 Aud
 Tom Faulkner
 Introduction to holography
Week 6




Mon, Oct 3
 2pm
 Aud
 Sean Hartnoll
 Focus week introduction: Criticality and instability in holography
Tue, Oct 4
 10am
 Aud
 Andrew Mackenzie
 Thermodynamics near magnetically tuned quantum critical points - past work & future prospects
Tue, Oct 4
 12.30pm
 Aud
 Eva Silverstein
 Large N gauge theories and ``strange metallic" transport
Wed, Oct 5
 10am
 Aud
 Steve Kivelson
 Achieving confusion - the puzzle of bad metals
Wed, Oct 5
 2pm
 Aud
 John McGreevy
 Black hole entropy and intermediate-temperature states of matter
Thu, Oct 6
 10am
 Aud
 Gil Lonzarich
 Unconventional phenomena on the border of metallic magnetism
Thu, Oct 6
 4pm
 Aud
 Senthil Todadri
 Non-fermi liquid metals: Some facts, ideas, and speculations
Fri, Oct 7
 10am
 Aud
 Johanna Erdmenger
 Imbalanced mixtures and anisotropic hydrodynamics from gauge/gravity duality
Fri, Oct 7
 3.30pm
 Aud
 Discussion led by McGreevy and Hartnoll

Week 7




Mon,10
 2pm
 Aud
 Tom Faulkner
 Introduction to holography II
Tue,11
 10am
 Aud
 Gary Horowitz
 A Turbulent Instability of Anti-de Sitter Space
Wed,12
 12 noon
 Aud
 Joe Polchinski
 Magnetic AdS Branes
Thu,13
 2pm
 Aud
 Catherine Pepin
 Heavy fermions: condensed matter theory perspective
Week 8




Tue
 10am
 Aud
 Andreas Karch
 Topological Insulators - Fractional and Holographic
Wed
 12 noon
 Aud
 Tadashi Takayanagi
 Recent Updates of Holographic Entanglement Entropy
Thu
 2pm
 Aud
 Liza Huijse
 A supersymmetric model for lattice fermions
Week 9




Tue
 10am
 Aud
 Umut Gursoy
 Gravity, spin models and continuous phase transitions
Wed
 12 noon
 Aud
 Cenke Xu
 Topological Terms of Nonlinear Sigma Models
Thu
 2pm
 Aud
 high energy seminar

Fri
 10am
 Aud
 Chris Herzog
 ADE-CST

Week 10
 Time
 Place*
 Speaker
 Title
 Comments, Links,...
Mon, October 31


HALLOWEEN
Tues, November 1
 10 am
 Aud
 Matthew Fisher
 Bose and Non-Fermi Liquid Metals
Wed, November 2
 12 noon
 Aud
 Alejandra Castro
 The gravity dual of the Ising model
Thurs, November 3
 2 pm
 Aud
 R. Loganayagam
 Anomaly Polynomial as a Hydrodynamic Property







Week 11
 Time
 Place*
 Speaker
 Title
 Comments, Links,...
Mon, November 7
 4 pm
 Aud
 Koenraad Schalm
 Towards a Holographic Fermi Liquid
Tues, November 8
 10 am
 Aud
 Shamit Kachru
 Maximally Supersymmetric Dirt
Wed, November 9
 12 noon
 Aud
 Julian Sonner
 Holographic noise near quantum critical points
Thurs, November 10
 2 pm
 Aud
 Rob Myers
 Holographic Entanglement Entropy







Week 12
 Time
 Place*
 Speaker
 Title
 Comments, Links,...
Mon, November 14
 4 pm
 Aud
 Philip Phillips
 Holography and Mottness: A Discrete Marriage
Tues, November 15
 10 am
 Aud
 Xiaoliang Qi
 An attempt to understand the holographic duality
through a functional formalism
Wed, November 16
 12 noon
 Aud
 Benson Way

Koushik Balasubramanian
 Lifshitz holography in string theory: singularities
and embeddings
String theory duals of Lifshitz-Chern-Simons gauge theories
Thurs, November 17
 2 pm
 Aud
 John McGreevy
 Free the slave particles: fractionalized states
for holography and for topological insulators
Fri, 18
 11am
 Aud
 All
 Final discussion!
*Aud=Auditorium, SSR=Small Seminar Room, MSR=Main Seminar Room, FR=Founders' Room, PL=Porthole Lounge
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